Baling-press.



L. TRABUE.

BALING PRESS. APPLICATION FILED mac. 8, 1911.

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Patented June 4, 1912.

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BALING PRESS. APPLICATION FILED BBQ. 8, 1911.

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LIITHER TRABUE, F GIBARD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO BELLEVILLE BALER COMPANY,

, OF BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BALING-PRESS.

specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 4, 1912.

1 '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LUTHER TnAnUE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Girard, Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Baling- Presses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will en'- able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to baling presses, and has for its object to provide an auxiliary feeding mechanism of novel construction for feeding the material into position to be acted upon by the beater which forces the material down into the baling chamber of the press.

Briefly described, my invention consists in a baling press provided with an auxiliary feeding mechanism that is operatively con nected to the plunger or compressing member which operates in the baling chamber of the press. Said mechanism comprises a feeding device for engaging the material, a supporting means or carrier for said feeding device which preferably consists of a pair ofreciprocating pitmen or rods that are rockably mounted, and an actuating means for said carrier which preferably consists of a pair 'of levers pivoted at one end to a stationary support and operatively connected intermediate their ends to the reciprocating plunger or compressing member of the press.

The feeding device may be of any suitable type, and can be mounted on the carrier in various ways but I prefer to mount said device on the'carrier in such a manner that it can yield or move relatively to the carrier when the carrier is moving into position to cause said device to engage the material, and will be held rigid, or substantially so, on the forward stroke of the carrier during the op eration of feeding the material toward the beater.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevational View of a baling press provided with an auxiliary feeding mechanism constructed in accordance with my invention, showing the feeding device at the end of its feeding stroke or in the position which it occupies preparatory to moving into position to engage the material; 2 is atop plan view of said press; Fig. 3 1s a perspective view of the feeding device and part ofthe carrier on which it is mounted; Fig 4 is a side elevational view showing the feeding device moving into position to engage the material; and Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the feeding device ready to engage the material so as to move it toward the beater on the forward stroke of the carrier.

Referring to the drawings which illustrate the preferred form of my invention, A designates a plunger or compressing member which reciprocates back and forth in the baling chamber so as to compress the material, B designates the operating means'for said plunger, herein shown as a pair of driven gears and a link C'that connects the plunger to said gears, and D designates the beater (see Fig. 1) which forces the ma terial down into the baling chamber. All of the elements above-referred to may be of any preferred construction as they form no part of my present invention.

The material to be compressed is fed or thrown onto a platform 1 which terminates at the opening in the top wall of the baling chamber through which the beater forces the material, and an auxiliary feeding mechanism, which I will now describe, engages the material on the platform 1 and moves it longitudinally of said platform into position to be acted upon by the beater, thereby eliminating the manual operation of pitching the material to the beater or moving it manually over the platform into position to be acted upon by the beater. Said auxiliary feeding mechanism comprises a feeding device E, a carrier for said feeding device which preferably consists of a pair of links or pit-men 2 that are slidingly mounted in blocks or bearings 3 which are pivotally connected atv 4 to standards or uprights -5 located adjacent the feed 0pening in the baling chamber, an operating means for said links 2 consisting of elbowshaped levers 6 pivotally connected at their upper ends to the links 2 and at their lower ends to brackets or stationary parts 7 of the machine, and a connection between the levers 6 and the plunger A. In the embodiment of my invention herein shown, said connection consists of laterally projecting pins 8 on the plunger which project into elongated slots 9. formed in the lower portions of the levers 6 but I do not wish it to be understood that my invention is limited to any particular means for connecting the levers 6 to the plunger A for my broad idea vice carrier consists in an auxiliary feeding mechanism for the purpose described which is operatively connected to the plunger or compressing member of the baling press so that the plunger itself will actuate the auxiliary feeding mechanism.

The platform 1 is provided wlth retaimng walls 1 that confine the material, and the end retaining wall 1 is preferably curved downwardly and inwardly toward the feed opening in the top of the baling chamber so that it will act as a track over which the lower edge of the feeding device E drags when it moves downwardly and toward the beater D, said curved end wall preferably emerging into the platform 1, as shown 111 Fig. 1. The feeding device E herein shown consists of a relatively wide blade or scraper whose upper end is pivotally .connected to the rods 2 which form the feeding device carrier, as, for example, by means of a long through bolt 10, and means is provided for holding said blade rigid, or substantially so, on the forward stroke of the feeding device, and permitting said blade or device E to move relatively to its carrier on the return stroke of the carrier. Said means consists of coiled springs 11. connected at one end to pins 12 on the upper endof the feeding device E, and at their opposite ends to pins 12 on a cross-bar 13 that connects the rods 2 together, and a link14= pivotally mounted on said cross-bar 13 and provided with an elongated slot 15 which receives a pin 16 on a bracket 17 that is fastened to the feeding device E. Said feeding device is provided with an elongated slot 18, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to form a clearance for the lower end of the slotted link 15 in certain positions of the feeding device E. t

The various elements of the auxiliary feeding mechanism are so designed and arranged that they will occupy the position shown in Fig. 1 when the plunger or compressing member A is at the end of its return stroke. When the plunger A moves forwardly, or to the right, looking at Fig. 1, so as to com ress the material which the beater D has orced downwardly into the baling chamber, the projections 8 on said plunger cause the levers 6 to move forwardly and thus reciprocate the feeding deto the right, the springs 11 yielding and thus permitting the lower end of the eeding devlce E to swing to the left in case there is a mass of material on the platform 1 over which the feeding device drags. The forward movement of the plunger A causes the levers 6 to rock downwardly, as well as to the right, and as the rods 2 which constitute the feeding device carrier are slidingly mounted in the rockable bearings 3, the downward movement of said levers 6 causes the rods 2 to swing upwardly in the manner shown in Fig. 5

and thus position the feeding device E above the mass of material on the platform 1. On the return stroke of the plunger Athe rods 2 rock downwardly and thus force the feeding device Eldownwardl into engagement with the material on t e platform 1, the continued movement of the plunger A to the left causingthe feeding device E and the material wh ch lies in front of same to be moved toward the feed opening in the top wall of the baling chamber. The levers 6 are so desi ed that the lower edge of the feeding device E will move downwardly over the curved end wall on the platform 1 and then dra over. the platform, thus gathering all of t e material lying on the latform. The slotted link 15 holds the eeding device E rigid with relation to the rods 2 at this eriod in the cycle of operations of the auxiliary feeding mechanism and thus causes the feeding device to move the material positively into the path of the beater D Ivovhich forces it down into the baling cham- If desired, the-pin 16 on the feeding device which passes through the slot 15 in the link 14, ma be of wood or some other suitable materlal that will break in case the feeding device comes in contact with some immovable obstruction on the return stroke of the auxiliary feeding mechanism, and thus prevent damage to the levers 6 and the other elements of the auxiliary feeding mechanism.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A baling press provided with a plunger for compressing the material in the baling chamber, a heater for forcing the material down into the baling chamber, an auxiliary feeding mechanism separate and dis- 'tinct from said beater for feeding the material into position to be'acted upon by the beater, and a connection between said plunger and feeding mechanism for transmittin movement from said plunger to said fee ing mechanism. L

2. A baling press provided with an auxiliary feeding mechanism for moving the material into position to be forced into the baling chamber of the press, said auxiliary feeding filechanism comprising a reciprocating carrier and a feeding device pivotally mounted on said carrier, a plunger for compressing the material in the baling chamher, and means for actuating said feeding mechanism from said plunger.

3. A baling press provided with a plunger or compressing member, and an auxiliary feeding mechanism operatively connected to said plunger for feeding the material into position to be acted upon by the device which forces the material into the path of said plunger, said auxiliaryfeeding aoaeaoa mechanism comprising a reciprocating carrier that is rockably mounted and a pivot.- ally mounted device on said carrier for engaging the material.

4. A baling press comprising a plunger for compressing the material in the baling chamber, a beater for forcing the material down into the path ofsaid plunger, and an auxiliary feeding mechanism separate and distinct from said beater and operatively connected to'said plunger for moving the material into position to be-acted upon by said beater, said auxiliary feeding mechanism comprising a reciprocating carrier mounted in rockable bearlngs and a device on said carrier for engaging the material.

5. In a baling press, an auxiliary feeding mechanism comprising a reciprocating carrier, a movable feeding device mounted on said carrier, and means for holding said feeding device rigid when the carrier moves in one direction, and permitting it to yield relatively to the carrier when the carrier moves in the opposite direction.

6. In a baling press, an auxiliary feeding mechanism for feeding the material into position to be forced into the baling chamher, said mechanism consisting of a carrier, means for reciprocating and rocking said carrier, a feeding device pivotally mounted on said carrier, and yielding means which normally holds said feeding device in a certam position with relation to said carrier.

7 In a baling press, an auxiliary feeding mechanism comprising a reciprocating carrier, a feeding device pivotally connected to said carrier, yielding meanswhich exerts pressure on said feeding device when it moves relatively to the carrier in one direction, and means for positively resisting movement of said feeding device relatively to the carrier in the opposite direction.

8. In a baling press, an auxiliary feeding mechanism comprising a reciprocating carrier, a feeding device pivotally connected to said carrier, a link connected to one of said parts and providedwith a slot that receives a pin on the other part, and a spring connected to said carrier and said feeding device for normally holding the feeding .device in a certain position with relation to the carrier.

9. In a baling press, an auxiliary feeding mechanism comprising a reciprocating carrier, a pivotally mounted feeding device on said carrier, a link pivotally connected to said carrier and provided with an elongated slot, a pin on said feeding'device that passes through the slot in said link, said feeding device having an opening which forms a clearance for the lower end of said link, and

a spring connected to said carrier and to a projection on the upper end of said feeding device.

10. A baling press provided with a re- 'ciprocating plunge r for compressing the ing chamber, a lever, a projection on one of said parts that enters a slot in the other part, a feeding device for moving the ma terial into position to be forced into the baling chamber, and a carrier for said feeding device operatively connected to said lever.

12. A baling press provided with a reciprocating plunger for compressing the material in the baling chamber, an elbowshaped lever pivotally mounted at its lower end, a projection on one of said parts that enters a slot'in the other part, and a reciprocating carrier pivotally connected to the upper end of said lever and provided with a device for feeding material into position to be forced into the baling chamber.

13. A baling press provided with a reciprocating plunger for compressing the material in the baling chamber, a pair of elbow-shaped levers pivotally connected at their lower ends to a stationary part of the press, projections on said plunger that enter elongated slots in the lower portion of said levers, and a reciprocating carrier pivotally connected to said levers and provided with a device for engaging material and feeding it into position to be forced into the baling chamber.

14;. A baling press provided with a reciprocating plunger for compressing the material in the baling chamber, a pair of elbow-shaped levers pivotally connected at their lower ends to a stationary part of the press, projections on said plunger that enter elongated slots in the lower portion of said levers, a reciprocating carrier pivotally connected to said levers and provided with a device for engaging material and feeding it into position to be forced into the baling chamber, and a stationary support provided with a rockable bearing in which said carrier is reciprocatingly mounted.

'15. A baling press provided with a platform located adjacent the feed opening of the baling chamber for receiving the material that is to-be compressed, a curved retaining wall at the end of said platform, an auxiliary feeding mechanism comprising a reciprocating carrier, a feeding device pivotally mounted on said carrier, and a sprlng connected to said device and carrier for mally normally holding said device in a certainposition.

16. A baling press provided with a platform for receiving the material that is to be compressed, a curved retaining wall at one end of said platform, a reciprocating member, a feeding device pivotally mounted on said member, yielding means which norholds said feeding device in a certain position with relation to said reciprocating member, means for movin said feeding device downwardly over sai curved wall and dragging it over said platform so as to feed the material into position to be forced into the baling chamber ofthe press, and means for holding said feeding device substantially ri 'd with relation to said reciprocatsignature in the presence of two witnesses,

this fourth day 0 December 1911.

LUTHER TRABUE. 

